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    Gardner Buildings in Dennysville, Maine

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    View of Water Street Dennysville from the Edmunds side of the Dennys River. Note the mill houses on The Lane in the background. In the foreground on the riverbank are the blacksmith and carpenter shops, while across the road are the two buildings that served as George Kilby's and Frank West's drug stores. Behind them are houses and barns of the Gardner family.

    Dennys River Historic PhotographsPhotos for Map

    View of Dennysville, Maine from Edmunds; Four shops and storage buildings back onto the river; facing the street are two drug stores; on the hill, to the left, are Mrs. A.L.R. Gardner's house, and in the center is Fred Gardner's; across the fields on The Lane are several square Dennysville Lumber Company houses, later Archie Matheson's and Edward and Alice Burns'.
    View of Gardner's stores and houses on the Dennys River, c. 1900; View of Gardner's stores and houses on the Dennys River, c. 1900. The blacksmith shop is to the right on the river bank, built by William Kilby in the 1790's and later used by A.L.R. Gardner. A.L.R. Gardner in his blacksmith shop in Dennysville c. 1880.; Two young spectators watch A.L.R. Gardner at work on his anvil in this view of his blacksmith shop, originally built on the Dennys River by William Kilby in the 1790's.